Driver In Fatal Hit-And-Run Pleads Guilty

HARTFORD — A city man charged with fleeing the scene of an accident that killed a 3-year-old boy in 2011 decided against having a trial.

Christian Bordelies, 20, pleaded guilty during a court appearance in December to evading responsibility and negligent homicide with a motor vehicle. He had previously rejected a plea bargain offer from state prosecutors.

He faces three years in prison and four years of probation when he is sentenced Feb. 22, said Deron Freeman, Bordelies' attorney.

Bordelies was speeding through Pope Park on May 12, 2011 on his way to smoke marijuana with a friend when the boy ran in front of the car, according to a police report. Bordelies fled the scene on foot, leaving his vehicle there, and asked his girlfriend to report the car stolen, the report states.

He later turned himself in and was charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, evading, operating a motor vehicle without a license and traveling too fast for conditions.

The boy, Joseph Ortiz-Resto, of Bedford Street, was pronounced dead at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center on the day he was hit.